Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed

I LOVE angry feminist teenager Diana it makes me SO HAPPY. This is a great work to start in on the social justice fury if someone isn't already there. Seeing the complex miseries of the world through the eyes of someone who is completely unfamiliar with it takes it a little further from “of course this is what happens, it always does and always will be” to “tell me again WHY you're angry at us for giving food to people??”
The big one though was Steve and his husband, Trevor, that's hecking delightful. Bless. And avoids trying to set up a 16 year old on a date with someone she doesn't really know!

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as part of a quick takes post to catch up–emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness.
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I really didn't need this book, Leigh Bardugo's YA retelling of Wonder Woman's origin was good enough, and superior to this one. But I'd read some largely positive reviews and decided to give it a shot.

It felt less like a Wonder Woman story, and more like Anderson wanted to find a way to talk about certain issues and shoved Diana into the necessary circumstances and then shaped the character around that, rather than making it feel organic and earned. Also, there was too much left unexplained. There was so much I didn't understand about what was going on with Diana on the Themyscira and physically that it felt more like Anderson dropped the ball and less like she was being understated.

It wasn't bad, but it sure wasn't good.

Brilliant new origin story for Wonder Woman from Laurie Halse Anderson as she discovers and confronts injustices in her new world.